Song · On a Friday / pre-Pablo Honey (1986–92)
Give It Up
Madchester, attempted in April 1991.
april 1991
the demo tape
It comes from the April 1991 demo tape of On a Friday, as Radiohead were then called, and it is baggy, with the loose Manchester rhythm of the time. The same cassette carried “What Is That You Say?” and an early “Stop Whispering”. This site's 2003 version says that tape helped persuade Chris Hufford and Bryce Edge, who ran Courtyard Studio and became the band's managers, to produce the band's next demo, the one sold at the Oxford record shop Manic Hedgehog.
the video
The first of two On a Friday versions.· Bas Kollenwatch on youtube →
sources4
- The site's own catalogue note, based on Stereogum and fan archives.
- treefingers.com, the 2003 lyric page for “Give It Up”, for the cassette and Hufford and Edge.
- Treefingers news desk, 20 August 2002 (from NME), for Hufford and Edge running Courtyard and managing the band.
- The site's own sessions ledger, for the demo sold at Manic Hedgehog for £3.